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Obama: Republicans privately 'agree' with me
CNN ^
| Aug 23, 2013
| Dan Merica and Bryan Koenig
Posted on 08/23/2013 10:25:09 AM PDT by Innovative
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To: INVAR
Yes, but you just can’t tell the uninformed Republican primary voters the truth. They aren’t listening, too busy making money.
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posted on
08/24/2013 9:48:24 PM PDT
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Theodore R.
(The grand pooh-bahs have spoken: "It's Jebbie's turn!")
To: Brad from Tennessee
I read that LBJ enjoyed socializing with Republicans so he could boast of his bipartisan support. He was quite deferential to his old rival John Tower, often gave him rides to D.C. and Austin via Air Force One. He once told Tower, “John, you have done more for me on Vietnam than my whole damn party!” And he loved ol’ Everett Dirksen like an older brother. Of course, Ev caved when he was called upon to do so. Just like Ev’s son-in-law Howard Baker, and Baker’s successor, Bob Dole, and now the same ol’, same ol’ McC of KY.
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posted on
08/24/2013 9:52:06 PM PDT
by
Theodore R.
(The grand pooh-bahs have spoken: "It's Jebbie's turn!")
To: Maceman
Doing as you propose would strengthen RINOs; they would never again fear losing a primary.
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posted on
08/24/2013 9:54:44 PM PDT
by
Theodore R.
(The grand pooh-bahs have spoken: "It's Jebbie's turn!")
To: Theodore R.
Doing as you propose would strengthen RINOs; they would never again fear losing a primary.They would never fear losing a primary, but they would never again win an election. The RINOs could not afford to lose the base and ever hope to be elected again.
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posted on
08/25/2013 12:15:22 AM PDT
by
Maceman
(Just say "NO" to tyranny.)
To: Theodore R.
LBJ's fixer and bag man, Bobby Baker, wrote a book in the early 1980’s that detailed LBJ's style in the Senate. Getting votes often entailed handing off satchels of cash to lawmakers. But he also had a great talent for persuasion on other levels. The Washington press corps always carried a resentment against Johnson because he wasn't JFK. LBJ was a political powerhouse who remains, at least for me, one of the most fascinating political figures in U.S. history.
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08/26/2013 11:15:20 AM PDT
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Brad from Tennessee
(A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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